quoting nevent1q…vdh7It pains me to say it after 3 years of building on it but I think lightning is ngmi, at least for non custodial pleb payments.
I think ark and liquid are fundamentally a more sound approach to L2 for end users.
If it REQUIRES the end user to run infrastructure, even if that is just a phone, it's going to be too janky to actually scale.
Not to mention that somehow lightning is already more ossified than L1...
If we continue down the custodian route people will get rugged or KYC d
I am ready for your hate, but this is my current take. Also would be happy to be proven wrong.
Now back to sshing into my node and working on chantools to recover a force closed channel utxo that lnd didn't report.
Totally easy for everyday users to solve if they run into this problem...
One of the reasons apple is (was?) successful is they hide away a lot from end users. My parents are diehard apple fans for this very reason. So any non-custodial self-custody solution would have to have this level of hand holding. I have some doubt that you can have both hand-holding and non-custodial.
I can't recall where I read this story about Steve Jobs. It was during a design meeting for some tool on Mac and he says to his design team he wants users to click one button and the task they are trying to do gets done. Anything more than clicking one button is almost too much for some people.
Go to any store with self-service kiosks (McDonalds, Dunkin' Donuts, etc.) and watch how everyday people (with all due respect) struggle even with tools like that.
Granted, you can argue that these things might not be designed well. Fair enough. But I doubt it would be merely bad design.